Shoe-polishing apparatus



Patented Apr. 22, 1924.

Y UNITED sTATEs NAPOLEON B. IDDLE, F BT. FBANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA.

SHOE-POLISHING APPARATUS.

Application med lAugust S, 1920. Serial No. 401,408.'

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NAPOLEON B. RIDDLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Francisville, in the parish of West Fev liciana and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Polishing Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, comparatively inexpensive and efiicient portable shoe shining or polishing device suitable for example for domestic use or in connection with or as an adjunct of a shoe shining parlor, and with this object in view the invention consists in the const-ruction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawing, wherein:

igure 1 is a side view of the apparatus.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view 26 of the same.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through the casing of the apparatus and its su rt.

e device consists essentially of a shank 3o 10, preferably tapered in diameter and provided with a roughened or milled grip portion 11 to one end of which is attached a preferably ws herical casi 12 of an electric motor, supp ied by a flexl le conductor 13,

the shaft 14 of the motor extending axially through the shank 10 and being provided at its outerend with a socket 15. The brush or polishing head 16 which may be of any preerred construction, material, or form, is

4o rovided with a stem 17 fitted in the socket 5 and secured in place by means of a set screw 18 to the end that the polishin head f may be changed or inter-cha wit other heads, according to the wor to be pera formed. The head may be secured to the stem by means of a retaining screw19 or the i equiv ent thereof.

Whentheapparatusisnotinusetmay be arranged with the spherical motor casing 12 in a suitable rest 20 concaved to receive the same1 and the conductor 13 may be provided with a terminal plug 21 for attachment with a wall socket or equivalent of a house electrical service system. As shown in Fi re 1, the rest 20 may be used to support t e device while allowing freehand Inanipulation of the same about said rest as a pivoting oint.

It will obvious that an apparatus such as described maybe conveniently located for domestic use and is adapted to serve its purpose with the minimum of effort and risk upon the part of the operator or may be used with advantage in those establishments wherein the public is served as a means of economizing time and effort upon the part of the operator and with better results than can be secured by the manual opera-tion of polishing brushes or cloths.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is 1. A portable device of the class described having a casing comprising a handle, and formed at one end w1th an enlarged spherical portion, rotatable means in sald handle, means in said portion and connected to said rotatable means to rotate the same, a su portin rest having a socket shaped to su stantia ly correspond to and recelve said enlarged portion to pivotally support .said casing for hand manipulation.

2. A portable device of the class described having a substantially spherical casin an elongated tubular handle extending t erefrom, a motor within the casin having a driving shaft journaled in the andle and lprojecting beyond the f ree end thereof, and

tool-securingmeans on said shaft beyond the free end of said handle.

In testimon whereof I afiix' my signature 90 in presence o two witnesses.

NAPOLEON B. RIDDLE.

Witnesses: l

Rom Tamm, D. D. Bnooxg. 

